Lot 3313. A carved zitan square box and cover, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795); 23 cm, 9 in. Estimate 300,000 -- 400,000 HKD. Lot Sold 350,000 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

of square section with the top panel of the cover finely carved with a scholar and attendant waiting on a terrace for another scholar arriving on a donkey followed by his attendant, framed in a key-fret border, the sides decorated with quatrefoil panels enclosing deer, all reserved on a wan-diaper ground, supported on a shallow base with further panels containing flowers on a similar wan-diaper ground and supported on four bracket feet skirted by a band of lappets.

Provenance: Collection of Dr. Ip Yee. Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19th November 1984, lot 99. 

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 april 2011